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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
Why We Didn't Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticlePolicymakers are victims of their own success. -
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
Career transitions Digital ArticleHow biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free. -
Why Businesses Should Lower Prices During Natural Disasters
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt helps your customers, which helps your brand. -
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Needs a Real Website
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleReally? This is the online face of the of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? The commission that's tasked with restoring the public's trust in our... -
We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability
Global Business Digital ArticleSalary data masks the true extent of the problem. -
What We've Learned from the Financial Crisis
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleFor decades, the basic idea that governed economic thinking was that markets work: The right price will always find a buyer and a seller, and millions... -
Silicon Valley Bank's Focus on Startups Was a Double-Edged Sword
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSector specialization comes with steep risks - and high upside. -
The JP Morgan "Whale" Report and the Ghosts of the Financial Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBeyond the losses, the incident poses an enigma which business and government must ponder. -
Preparing for a Black Swan Cyberattack
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleOrganizations should take a cue from governments' growing sense of alarm. -
The Latest Supply Chain Disruption: Plastics
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA global shortage is impacting companies across every industry. -
Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
Economics Digital ArticleWhat happens when there is a mass loss of confidence in the financial system? This very contemporary question was put in unexpected historical context for me this Christmas by a book I was given, A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. It is based on one […] -
The Economic Crisis Requires Returning to Your Core
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt was, as baseball sage Yogi Berra said, "like déjà vu all over again." All that people wanted to talk about were variations on the theme of Profit from... -
What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleReform needs to come from outside of higher ed. -
How "Payment Banks" Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSilicon Valley Bank illustrates why payroll shouldn't be stored in an institution vulnerable to bank runs. -
Why the Financial Crisis is (Mostly) Good News for Gen Y
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleI called my 23-year-old son a couple weeks ago, in part as a pleasant distraction from the hypnotic horror of watching our stock portfolio vaporize. After... -
In a Crisis, Ecosystem Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHow China's biggest insurance company adapted to meet consumer needs. -
A Financial Crisis Fifty Years in the Making?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleOver the past few weeks, I grew sick of listening to "big picture" stories on the financial crisis that only covered the last 5 to 10 years. That's not... -
Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down
Financial markets Digital ArticleWith an aggressive but thoughtful approach, it’s possible to survive a downturn — and even emerge stronger. -
The UK Economic Crisis Might Not Be a One-Off
Global Business Digital ArticleBritain's travails are part of a wider set of political and economic problems in Europe.
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The Fall of the "Fabulous Fab"
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Fabrice Tourre, a mid-level trader at Goldman Sachs, seeks to understand how he was one of the only executives of any Wall Street firm held accountable... -
Prague Post
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is... -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (B): US Treasuries in December 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The B case briefly recounts the action that investment manager James Franey takes in the matter of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturity dates... -
Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
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Lind Equipment
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior... -
TowneBank: Of David and Goliaths
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details During the summer of 1998, Bob Aston and his partners, all bankers, spent many days discussing their plans to start a bank in the south-eastern region... -
KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company (KBC) (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case LBS109. This is part of a case series. The case describes the turnaround of the Belgian bank KBC under the leadership of Johan Thijs... -
The U.S. Banking Panic of 1933 and Federal Deposit Insurance
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details After highlighting some key developments in the banking history of the United States, the case illustrates the Banking Panic of 1933 and the way in which... -
The Financial Crises of the 1890s and the High Tide of Populism (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in November 1896, the case describes the views of the two leading candidates for US president, William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley, along... -
Jinwoong: Financing an Entrepreneurial Firm in the Wake of the Korean Financial Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes T.P. Lee, the founder and CEO of Jinwoong, a 19-year-old entrepreneurial company in Korea that has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer... -
The Panic of 2008 and Brexit: Regional Integration versus Nationalism
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set at June 23, 2016, voters in the United Kingdom have just approved a referendum calling for the UK to leave the European Union. The case describes... -
Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail?, Epilogue
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In September 2008, Hank Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Tim Geithner, President... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's... -
Standing at the Edge of a Cliff: GM at the Onset of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case details the competitive and macroeconomic challenges that faced the automobile giant before and after the onset of the 2008 financial crisis-including... -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Investment manager Albert Mills confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices an unusually low--... -
Yes Bank: Financial Distress
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, a young analyst intended to examine the financials of Yes Bank, one of India's leading private banks. It had gotten into financial trouble... -
Deglobalization and Alternative Futures
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews the evidence that the world is undergoing an era of de-globalization. It shows that available metrics show some support for this theory.... -
Tatiana Gschwend at the Head of Familitet: A Russian Social Innovation and Family Services Pioneer
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The case tells the story of Familitet, a small social enterprise in Ryazan, Russia, and its CEO, Tatiana Gschwend. In the post-Soviet world, where institutions... -
Trouble with a Bubble
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary... -
The Panic of 1837 and the Market Revolution in America (A) and (B) (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 1837, President Martin Van Buren confronted a dilemma over the appropriate federal response to the recent panic of 1837 that seemed to undercut the...
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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
The Fall of the "Fabulous Fab"
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Fabrice Tourre, a mid-level trader at Goldman Sachs, seeks to understand how he was one of the only executives of any Wall Street firm held accountable... -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 821074. -
Why We Didn't Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticlePolicymakers are victims of their own success. -
Prague Post
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is... -
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
Career transitions Digital ArticleHow biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free. -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (B): US Treasuries in December 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The B case briefly recounts the action that investment manager James Franey takes in the matter of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturity dates... -
Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
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Lind Equipment
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior... -
TowneBank: Of David and Goliaths
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details During the summer of 1998, Bob Aston and his partners, all bankers, spent many days discussing their plans to start a bank in the south-eastern region...